Posted by on Wed, 26 Oct 11 15:47
Prescriptions for anti-depressants in the UK have gone up 43% to 23 million a year.
An article in The Independent yesterday explained that ‘Research repeatedly appears to show that anti-depressants are little more than placebos., with very little therapeutic benefit but serious side-effects’ including sexual dysfunction, which in some cases carries on even when they stop taking the pills.
Posted by on Thu, 30 Jun 11 10:00
It’s Dementia Awareness Week and I am proud to announce that Food for the Brain’s Alzheimer’s Prevention Project has hit the 70,000 mark.
Over 500 people are diagnosed with dementia every single day. Research UK shows that a million people in Britain will suffer some form of dementia within the next two decades, and one in three pensioners will die with it. The best current treatments can only help reduce the symptoms and cannot prevent the disease progressing. Three quarters of dementia is Alzheimer’s, for which there is no known way of reversing the brain damage.
Posted by on Sun, 15 May 11 07:12
The first free on-line Cognitive Function Test developed by leading mental health experts to accurately assess your risk of memory decline, and what to do now to protect your memory, and thus reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer’s in the future, is now live. It hit the front page of the Daily Mail and also the Telegraph.
Posted by on Tue, 22 Mar 11 15:55
If I told you that there is a proven way to prevent age-related memory decline, stop your brain shrinking and prevent Alzheimer’s would you be interested? If so, read on.
Posted by on Wed, 09 Mar 11 20:00
Most of us realise that stress is not good for us, but often it just seems like such a normal part of everyday life that we don’t take time to really address it. However, if you knew that regular stress left unchecked can increase your risk of dying from heart-related problems by 500%, would you be more motivated? Too much stress also ups your likelihood of developing dementia by 65%, increases risk for both obesity and breast cancer, and doubles a man’s chances of developing diabetes.
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